Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

I always look to my mom for strength and courage when I need it.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Don't lose a diamond while chasing glitter honey

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.

I was moving forward into space, but i would never come home again

Love me - that's all I ask of you.

It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

Judge if you want, we are all going to die. I intend to deserve it.

I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars — they would think the country has gone insane.